Big train: Jockey hunt

classic! :-D

"Strong cup of tea and an iced vo vo"

somehow I think "strong cup of tea and an Iced VO VO" is strangely fitting for Kevin Rudd. It was actually part of his victory speech. And he looked like a Tea and Iced vo vo consumer, though only occasionally indulging in the guilty pleasure.

He's not radical, that's for sure. But hopefully that means he will be a good balanced influence for the better.

Much to my own surprise I felt quite sad watching Howard's concession speech. He was very dignified and graceful, and it was an emotional moment to watch the end of an era, whether or not it was an era I liked. It was a very symbolic transition from old world, retiring conservative, to new, young, future minded, mandarin speaking, slightly awkward, almost unlikely, uncharismatic or uncomfortable choice, but somehow more suited to the 21st century. I guess Rudd will satisfy that part in us that thinks there were a lot of areas where Howard actually did a good job. It's hard to deny that the economy is in a good state, so hopefully Rudd will keep the good bits, but scrap all the bits where they were just a bunch of bastards.

I also noticed that Labor seems to have removed all affiliation with the Union Jack - Just the southern cross behind them....makes me wonder if another republic referendum is on the cards....

I hope so - it seems bizarre for it to still be there and the queen to still be on the money.

Whatever happens, I'm sure Kev o'Sev will become less awkward as Government shapes him (it always does - Howard was very goofy at the start), and it feels exciting to witness such a big change.

The father of the new plutocracy is sharing the intimate secrets of his new plan for galactic domination with the governor of one of his lower dominions in the pacific and demonstrating his new finger gesture operated depleted uranium daisy cutter laser detonator. The aging minion on the left looks on in awe as the supreme overlord effortlessly pulverizes a small outpost in the desert, somewhere near Pine Gap.
“Blammo!” exclaims the crazed megalomaniac ruler, drunk on his own power and careless in his boisterous, egotistical boasting; showing off like a child with a new super soaker.
“I think the caretaker was still in that building!” interjects the pacific minister, tired and uncertain of his ability to keep up with the virile young buck, who is unrestrained in his ecstatic enjoyment of this new phase of the war games.
“That’s okay, we’ll get ya another.” Replies the fuehrer as he calls to one of his man servants to rustle up another staff member for his little friend.
“What else have you got for us to blow up? Where’s that big pointy building that looks like a bunch of sea shells? That’d be fun to smash up!”
Little Johnny stammers: “erm…you mean the opera house?” quietly thanking God in his mind that they are a couple of thousand kilometers away, giving ‘Il Duce’ time to get distracted and forget about his impulsive plan to destroy one of the colony’s most important monuments.

WTF???

well, just in case we felt like Rudd was the better man: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/23/2099795.htm?site=elections/federal/2007 (you can also click the title)

I'm really not sure he's much better, but in my desperation to get rid of the Howard regime I'm still going to vote fro him

but I'm gonna vote for Larissa in the senate

tomorrow's election

well..........

I'd really like to think that Australians will get rid of these right wing arseholes, but sadly I'm not that hopeful. I think Australia is even more like the US here than we'd like to admit and this feels eerily like GWB vs John Kerry in 2004 - red necked right wing idiots who only care about money and thus make everyone feel like there's money in the bank, revealing Average Joe's real interest in money above all else, while abominations like Baxter detention centre are incarcerating innocent people and the government are even spending 700 million on building another, worse one on Christmas island.

The crazy thing is everyone seems to be going around thinking "yeah they've done an alright job" and completely forgetting that the standard of living here used to be a huge amount better pre-howard and young people could actually afford to buy a house and a loaf of bread.

now we are just like any other first world country in the world and the one advantage Australia always had has been eroded and now we're just a nation of greedy fat bastards with short memories.

I hope tomorrow proves me wrong, but I somehow doubt it.

nearly forgot about this gem

I am not actually that optimistic, but I dearly hope the bastards don't get in again.

The Librarians

great new comedy series on the ABC

Kermit the Forge

Alex the Forge - at least partially inspired by this:



One day I will make that t-shirt!

Our soon to be departing overlord

I stole this from Nat Burgess. In her blog

It's the week before the election and I liked it

!!!

Although in all likelihood the poor woman would have been quite badly hurt from this, there is nothing so funny as good old fashioned slapstick.

Talk on your mobile on Everest?

So now you cant even climb everest without some bastard Indian call centre calling you


http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/C/CHINA_EVEREST_CELL_STATION?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-11-13-09-23-25

(click on the title - I can't figure out how to make the link clickable

Discouraging news from researchers at John Hopkins: Hope causes cancer. (George Meyer)

Is this thing on?

I wonder how many blogs in the InterVerse start with that?

well finally I've done this

the myspace blog was never quite right - i think it's for the music face

SO NOW I HAVE AN OUTLET 

for all my mad late night rantings